On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Philip Prindeville
<philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> But, note that while backuppc will give you a nice method to restore
>> older versions of a few files or directories, and it can store more
>> copies in less space than about anything else, it won't be a great way
>> to restore the OS or its own working parts on the host machine. That
>> is, the storage format is compressed and you'll need a working
>> instance of backuppc to restore from it.
>>
>
> If I have to reboot from a Fedora Live! CD that will likely have
> BackupPC on it.
>
That might work - just try it before you need it... But backuppc is
not good in general at restoring to bare metal anyway. Normally you
would at least need a fresh install of the OS. Or, use something like
clonezilla or ReaR periodically to get something that will restore the
whole system up to the backup point, then use backuppc to drop in the
more recent changes.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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